Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone’s cup of tea and He...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

There’s that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they’re doing it with such panache and conviction…no, it’s because they say exactly what you want to hear, at...

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

You lying sneak.””All this time pretending to be a wolfblood’s best friend, then spying on us.””You don’t understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i’ll have the evidence to prove...

I think the lie we’ve told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn’t get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry...

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we...

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story...

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time — forcing it...

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

This planet is a broken bone that didn’t set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We’ve been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function...

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is...

spaceship” was parked in the courtyard of the cult training centre. An insider had been instructed that if the survivor began to remember the ritual abuse, she was to make her remember the alien abduction,...

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes...

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

My life story is 75% true. But which quarter is a lie? Better check my pants pockets—the one the politician’s wearing.

Sako, jog nutylėta tiesa taip pat gali būti melas.

There are enough reasons to live your life happily rather than sacrificing it for a lie.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and...

Gomst’s mouth framed a ‘no’, but every other muscle in him said ‘yes’. You’d think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

Love is an immortal lie!

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’tcheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.

I feel like people are so accustomed to comfort…now in days the truth to things is uncomfortable, so people avoid it. & sugarcoat things into a lie.. Sometimes the truth may be insensitive but I...

A fox will chew off its own foot before it calls for helpBut he saw glory in being a bird with broken wings And therefore he broke his own to fit into that illusion of...

Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won’t lie about that.

Don’t be deceived; who they say you are, is not who you become. You become who you think you are. You take the chair in your own programmings!

they may all be drunk at my place, but they’re all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we’ll lie our way to the truth

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it’s better not to tell the truth.

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It’s that this lie that they’re being told by society that parenting is one thing – and when parenting is something completely different –...

The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you.

There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys.

It is not in the house,” lied Bulbuk. It rains…Bulbuk is walking wet in the yard, for the neighbour to see that the umbrella is not at home. But the neighbour is not watching. He...

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!

Please don’t grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That’s a fact. That’s why the world is so messed up, Noah. That’s why...

No matter how Beautiful something may seem to be. You do not know the Ugly that lurks inside.

She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without...

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there’s some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there’s a lot of work that’s gone into...

If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.